Following the coronation, Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash are both troubled by regret. In the face of irreversible changes, they search for solace in solitude, but instead find each other in the small hours of the morning.

Following the coronation, Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash are both troubled by regret. In the face of irreversible changes, they search for solace in solitude, but instead find each other in the small hours of the morning.

Scootaloo's life hasn't been the easiest. Being orphaned at a young age and brought up in the foster system came with its own set of challenges, not the least of which was a lack of older pegasi around to teach her how to fly. Fortunately, Rainbow Dash can help with that. With her honorary big sister taking a more active role in her life, Scootaloo learns much more about herself than just how to fly.

Just cause no one's done this yet...[youtube=psuRGfAaju4]Oh, and congrats on the feature man. It really is a fun fic. Wanna see what happens with those rather apathetic parents... What kind of foster home is that?

I've broken YoutubeRepeat at least four times so far listening to that song over and over again. Not even from writing this, I just love Owl City.

The Takers are the Equestria equivalent of a state-certified caregiver, providing a private home to foster children for a small financial compensation. Basically, a little more personal than a group home, but still a state custodial arrangement unlike adoption.

I have a similar view to Scootabelle vs. Scootabellebloom as I do Twidash vs. Appledashlight. I love both the pairings and the triads, but writing single pairing stories that believably develop a relationship are way less work than writing triads. If I wrote a triad story with the CMCs (which would be aged up, because it's my opinion that writing about triads necessitates an inherently sexual type of story, which I'm happy to write about for adult characters, but children? Eeeeugh), it would need to be the focus of the story, not a part of another story like this one.

2503263 I disagree that a three-way relationship must needs be a sexual one. I think it can be written in such a way that the emotion can shine through without that. That said, yeah, if they're fuckin' they'd better damn well be at least teenagers.

In saying sexual, I don't necessarily mean explicit; it could be done with a teen rating and wouldn't even necessarily need to 'fade to black' on sex, it could be fairly chaste. However, there is a certain amount of sensuality to a triad that is fine in adult relationships, but creepy in toy ships. That's all.

Mmmm, TwiDash, and a possible Scootadoption in the future... Rainbow and Twilight taking the role of Scootaloo's parents is probably the most adorable family ever. That's right Rainbow Dash, I'm calling you adorable. Loving it so far, time for the next chapter!

Also, noticed one little typo: She stroked long, straight mane with a contented smile on her lips.Should be, "She stroked the long, straight mane..." Then again, I would also say that starting that sentence with "she" is a bit ambiguous; I'm assuming that Rainbow is doing the stroking, since Twilight's hair is straighter.

I suppose really what I should be saying is that toy ships need to be written differently than adult ships. Childhood crushes are a common event, and reciprocated childhood crushes are adorable even if they probably won't survive more than a few months. At that point it's less about sex, or love, or anything like that, and more about the characters figuring out who they are, what they want in life, and how they relate to others.

That said, this story is vaguely aged up, with the CMCs as preteens instead of older children (which is my view of their canon age; I'd put them around 9 in the show). Right at the age when humans start actually thinking about dating, well before those dates actually go anywhere.

And the complication of writing a triad extends well beyond the sensual nature of such relationships (which as someone who is polyamorous, I have biased and personal-experience-colored opinions on them and how they function), because they require an immense amount of relationship mechanics work. In a Scootabellebloom, a writer needs to cover the Scootabelle, the Scootabloom, and the Applebelle all separately, as well as them all together as a functioning triad, explain how this arrangement happened, and have some semblance of a plot to actually be a satisfying and complete story. Writing four thousand words of fluff with them being snuggly together might be adorable, but it is inherently dissatisfying to read. There needs to be more to it, and the triad relationship itself is complicated enough it needs an immense amount of focus. It could be done as a peripheral element, maybe by someone extremely talented and able to balance the amount of focus such a relationship needs with the other stuff going on in the story.

Very enjoyable so far. Good to see a fic that does Scootadoption and doesn't just have the adoption as a minor subplot where the author just sort of waves their hands and goes "and then they magically adopted her and everything was perfect forever".

On a completely different subject, I just realized how funny it is to see the word "karate" used in reference to ponies.

I'm slightly fonder of shipping all the CMC and Spike, but I certainly don't turn my nose up at just the CMC. I know what you mean about finding non-pornographic fics with that ship...I think I've only found one fic which isn't.

Clearly this takes place in the same continuity as Fluttershy Kicks a Puppy. Fluttershy's just on a different hill.

No, no, it's Coming Back. Fire Bulls are coming, Dash is somehow mentally projecting herself to Scootaloo and Twilight while they go about their daily lives instead of doing anything important. Because screw saving the world, this other stuff's way more important!

What I was wondering was how alive/dead she was in the afterlife. And that rating would be higher than being flung into the bowels of the underworld for all eternity, but not as much as Shrodinger's Cat.

Ah, I get ya. It's not been explicitly spelled out in the story, but as soon as Dash's heart started beating again she was technically alive. Alive in another plane of existence separate from the world of the living without a corporeal body, but alive nonetheless.